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Engineered Metamaterials Enable Remarkably Small Antennas

In an advance that might interest Q-Branch, the gadget makers for James Bond, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and partners from industry and academia have designed and tested experimental antennas that are highly efficient and yet a fraction of the size of standard antenna systems with comparable properties.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 26 Jan 2010

sp3 Diamond Technologies Announces Availability of New Turnkey Metalized Diamond Heat Spreading Segments

sp3 Diamond Technologies, Inc. (sp3), a leading supplier of diamond products, equipment and services, and Stellar Industries Corp. (Stellar), specializing in thermal management materials and metallization, today announce...

From sp3 26 Jan 2010

Nanoscale Protective Coating Market to Reach $3515 Million in 2015

Research and Markets, the leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "Nanoscale Protective Coatings" report to their offering. The market for nanosca...

From Research and Markets 26 Jan 2010

Brigham Young University Chooses NanoSight LM-10 for Nanotechnology Research

The Department of Chemistry + Biochemistry at Brigham Young University (BYU) has chosen the NanoSight LM-10 system to support their research into the synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles, principally metal oxides.

26 Jan 2010

Researchers Explain the Shape of Membrane Vesicles Containing Two Different Fluids

Little or nothing happens in cells without the involvement of the minute membrane vesicles: for example, vesicles act as recycling centres for cell waste, as detoxification stations and as a vehicle for substance transpo...

25 Jan 2010

A Huge Boost in the Understanding of How Hydrogen Material Could Be Harnessed

Physicists have long wondered whether hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, could be transformed into a metal and possibly even a superconductor-the elusive state in which electrons can flow without resist...

25 Jan 2010

Overcoming Ice Buildup on Aircraft using Nanotechnology

Shakespeare wrote it in his play "The Winter's Tale": "Everything freezes." At Battelle, an ingenious innovation using carbon nanotubes may prove the Bard of Avon wrong.

25 Jan 2010

Researchers Discover X-Rays Can Trigger Formation of New Type of Crystal

X-rays can do a lot of useful things -- detect broken bones, tumors and dental cavities, analyze atoms in diverse materials and screen luggage at airports -- but who knew they could cause crystals to form? A tea...

25 Jan 2010

Virginia Tech's Macromolecular Science and Engineering program Director Elected International Fellow

Judy S. Riffle, professor of chemistry and director of Virginia Tech's Macromolecular Science and Engineering program, has been elected a Fellow in the Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE) division of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

25 Jan 2010

Nanotechnology Researcher Named Fellow of American Physical Society

Lauded for his landmark advancements in nanotechnology, optics and the science of physics as a whole, Dr. Anvar Zakhidov from the University of Texas at Dallas has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).

24 Jan 2010